SECTARIAN REPRESSION ON HALABJA COMMEMORATION DAY

MESOP FLASH : WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

Sozdar Hamo, an activist based in Efrin city, told ARA News that the five students were arrested on the background of their participation in a commemoration of the genocide of Halabja city, where the flag of Kurdistan (also the flag of the Kurdistan Regional Government) and photos of Massoud Barzani (president of KRG) were raised and which was opposed to a gathering organized by the Democratic Union Party (PYD)